Development of English Teaching Material and its socio-historical context influence.

50's - early 60's
Scientific Language due to the space race,.
Language programmes focused on technical advance.. They were influenced by the behaviourism (drilling and English pattern practice)

Late 60's
Ways based on humanistic methologies. due to the hippie movement, influenced by Silent way and suggestopedia.
Input: not drilling not grammar.

70’s
Democratization of language.. Person centered methodologies.
Own unique ways of approaching language study.

80’s
The Communicative
Language Teaching movement:
Functional English.
''Users mattered, not rules''

90's- Present
Mcdonalization and neo-liberalism
Caged methodologies based on modules/units/blocks
English for the market and its money value.